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Deutsch: Tschechische Big Brother Awards 2009

The results of the fifth annual Big Brother Awards were announced at a festive evening in Prague's Theatre Na Pradle on 12 November 2009.

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Deutsch: Big Brother Awards Frankreich 2009

The French Big Brother Awards ceremony, or 'Orwell Party', was held this year on Saturday 4 April. The 2009 edition awarded 12 of the 35 nominees, in 6 categories, one of them being the positive 'Voltaire Award'.

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On 28 January 2009, Access to Information Programme and EDRi-member Internet Society - Bulgaria organized the fourth Big Brother Awards ceremony in Bulgaria. It was held at the National Press center of the Bulgarian News Agency and was also broadcasted live online.

The awardees of the Big Brother Award were selected by a jury with the following members:

• Alexander Kashumov - Head of AIP legal team
  
• Gergana Jouleva, PhD - Executive Director of AIP
  
• Georgi Lozanov - Ass.

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Big Brother Awards (BBA) are back in UK with more positive awards to celebrate the people that have been involved in protecting privacy in the past years.

The event, held in December 2008 at the London School of Economics, was organized by the EDRi-member Privacy International and gave only one Big Brother 2008 award - the statue of a boot stamping upon a human head - to the New Labour.

Other six positive prices, called Roll of Honour, were received by:

- Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP - one of the Liberal Democrat Members of the European Parliament, member of the Human Rights Committee;

- Phil Booth, the National Coordinator of the NO2ID Campaign against the Databas

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The fourth edition of Big Brother Awards was announced in the Czech Republic in Prague on 14 November 2008. Under the direction of Czech EDRi-member Iuridicum Remedium, seven worst perpetrators of the right to privacy were awarded. The positive prize was granted to German Working Group on Data Retention AK Vorrat.

The prizes were chosen by an expert jury from more than seventy nominations submitted by the public.

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EFFi (Electronic Frontier Finland) gave out Big Brother Awards for the fifth time in a ceremony held at Helsinki Book Fair on 25 October 2008.

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The ninth edition of the Big Brother Awards Germany ceremony took place on 24 October 2008 in Bielefeld, Germany. The "Oscars for data leeches" event was organized by EDRi-member FoeBuD that gave seven negative awards.

The Big Brother Award 2008 in the "Europe/EU" category went to The Council of the European Union (EU Ministers Council) in Brussels for the EU terror list. On this list, numerous organisations and individual persons have been labelled as "terrorists" and placed under strict sanctions, leading to severe violations of human rights.

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The Italian Big Brother Awards for 2008 were presented on 10 May 2008 during an e-privacy convention in Florence. The Italian jury is formed by 6 jurors who have to vote over 26 nominations, out of which 5 are for the positive award.

The public institution award was received by the Ministry of Economics for its very ample checking instruments. The institution is not the one to prove the citizens are breaking the law, instead it requires the tax payers to prove they are on the right side of the law. With the excuse of fighting tax evasion, the institution has been recently empowered to create mass personal (bank, health etc.) data filing, an obvious and useless violation of the